We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

A bird who can gobble is qualified to teach crowing.

Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?

I think our nation's at war with radical Islam. The primary goal of these groups is to attack our nation. Washington's a prime target.

My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year.

Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have.